Editorial Team

The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.

Editors-in-Chief

Gening Jiang, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Douglas J. Mathisen

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Chang Chen, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Editorial Board

Ghulam Abbas, MD, MHCM, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

Hiroyuki Adachi, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

Antonio Alvarez, MD, PhD

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Hospital Reina Sofia, Cordoba, Spain

Mara B. Antonoff, MD

Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Charles T. Bakhos, MD, MS, FACS

Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Mark F. Berry, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Pietro Bertoglio, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Mark I. Block, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Healthcare System, Hollywood, FL, USA

Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Patrick Dorn, MD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Haytham Elgharably, MD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Andrei I. Gritsiuta, MD, PhD

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

Takashi Harano, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

J. W. Awori Hayanga, MD, MPH, MHL, FRCS, FACS, FCCP

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

Haruaki Hino, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yin P. Hung, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Taryne A. Imai, MD, MEHP, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Queen's Healthcare System, Honolulu, HI, USA

Christopher F. Janowak, MD, FACS

Section of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Hyun Woo Jeon, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Mohamed K. Kamel

Department of Surgery, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Saginaw, Michigan, USA

Hirohisa Kato, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okitama General Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

Suresh Keshavamurthy, MD

Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Gregor J. Kocher, MD, PD, MBA (IHM), MEBTS

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Richard Lazzaro, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Jules Lin, MD, FACS

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Jay M. Lee, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

George Makdisi, MD, FACS, EMBA, MS, MPH

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tucson Medical Center, Tucson, AZ, USA

Alessio Vincenzo Mariolo, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, IMM-Curie-Montsouris Thoracic Institute, Paris, France

Emmanuel Martinod, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Avicenne Hospital, SMBH Faculty of Medicine, Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Nord, Paris, France

Donna E. Maziak, MDCM, MSc, FRCSC, FACS

Surgical Oncology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Ottawa Hospital-General Division, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Laureano Molins, MD

Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Clínic University Hospital, Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain

Tomohiro Murakawa, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Kentaro Noda, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Mohamed Rahouma, MD, PhD, MSc, MS

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA; Surgical Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt

Ravi Rajaram, MD, MSc, FACS

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. USA

George Rakovich, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada

Alvin Justin Rucker, MD, MPH, PhD

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Norihisa Shigemura, MD, PhD

Cardiothoracic Transplant Division, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD

Consultant, Department of Surgery and Thoracic Surgery, Sunrise Japan Hospital, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Satoshi Shiono, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

Monisha Sudarshan, MD, MPH, FACS, FRCSC

Department of Thoracic and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Kei Suzuki, MD, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, INOVA, Schar Cancer Institute, Falls Church, VA, USA

Marcus Taylor, MBChB, MRCS, MSc, MBA, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK

Davide Tosi, MD

Director of Thoracic Surgery Unit, ASL2 Liguria, Italy

Jon O. Wee

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Benjamin Wei, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

Managing Editors

Corresponding Editor

Suki Tang

Editorial Office, Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery, AME Publishing Company

Science Editor

Daisy Geng